The plague of one-star iTunes reviews has finally spread to me—I’m one of the big guys now! For those of you who don’t know, many podcasters have been hit with intensely negative, usually mean-spirited and sometimes downright offensive reviews on iTunes USA. There are a lot of conspiracy theories flying around, suggesting an organised group […]

Happy New Year! We’re twelve hours into the New Year as I write, and 2009 is pretty good so far. However, my US Listener Line is no more, gone from lack of use. I haven’t decided yet if I’ll replace it (your comments and suggestions about that are welcome). I’ll let you know what I […]

I mentioned how cars in New Zealand must have a Warrant of Fitness to prove that it’s mechanically sound. Well, as luck would have it, I took Nigel’s car in for its Warrant on Monday. The photo above is of various vehicles waiting for their inspection.

As part of the change to my podcast hosting, it’s now time to change the feed you subscribe to. On June 20 (early June 19, USA time) I’ll be downgrading my Podomatic account from paid to free. Given all the problems with Podomatic lately, it’s entirely possible that it may become impossible to download my […]

So far, so good. I’ve been uploading my MP3 files, which has been going alright. But getting WordPress and podPress to play nicely was another matter entirely. It took me parts of three days to get it all running, that and several different Google searches before I found the answer I needed: The filenames all […]